Travel Writing

_______________ 'A beautiful meditation on the writers relocation from bustling London to bucolic Florence. It reminded me why I cherish slow livi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to j...

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seve...

One woman, one bike and one richly entertaining, perception-altering journey of discovery. In 2015, as the Syrian War raged and the refugee crisis...

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...'Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat wri...

New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrant...

The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' T...

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christies extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to ...

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volume...

From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks writings that...

An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our expe...

Its hard to imagine a world where anything you could possibly want to know about and everything you dont even know you want to know about isn't a...

Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terr...

'Heads up heres how to run like a pro' - The Times 'A fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running With the Kenyans 'I'm convinced tha...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER** 'An inspirational study in leadership and a powerful testament to the human spirit at its very best.' - Mail...

Miriam Lancewood's first book Woman in the Wilderness told her story of living for seven years in the wilderness of New Zealand with her husband, h...

In his beautifully written prose, Dr Jonathan Reisman - physician, adventure traveller and naturalist - allows readers to navigate their insides li...

Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In...

Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN ...

THE TOP TWENTY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A brilliant new story-teller has arrived ERIN KELLYA read-in-one-sitting t...

Whenever I hear the word curry, Im filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin, cloves and cinnamon. I see deep red colour...

Year after year the family returns to the lake. The children, barefoot and free, explore its sun-drenched wilderness... The summer Bruce turns ten ...

A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in ...

'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell KabulOne of ...

Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the Engl...

Like the Dublin of Joyce and Jan Morris' Venice, Orhan Pamuk's bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sens...

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPH...